Who is financing the destruction of our lands?
Join the Indigenous delegation for a panel discussion on the eve of RBC’s 2023 Annual General Meeting in Saskatoon. This panel is a feature event of the RBC AGM23 mobilization.
The focus of the panel is ‘Who is financing the destruction of our lands?’ and features panelists involved in water and land protection from RBC backed fossil fuel projects.
In-person event hosted at the Wunder Hub in Saskatoon!
950 Spadina Crescent East, Saskatoon, SK
6:30-9:30 PM CST
Not in Saskatoon? Register for the livestream at the link below!
SPEAKERS:
Chief Na’Moks
Na’Moks is a Hereditary Chief of We’tsuwet’en. RBC is a financier of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline crossing We’tsuwet’en land.
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
Chief Phillip represents the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) who has filed a resolution calling on RBC to implement Free Prior Informed Consent in their financing decisions.
Tara Houska
Tara is a tribal attorney, land defender, environmental and Indigenous rights advocate, and founder of the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women, two-spirit-led frontline resistance to defend the sacred and live in balance.
Roishetta Ozane
Roishetta is the Executive Director of The Vessel Project and The Gulf Fossil Finance Coordinator for Texas Campaign for The Environment who will speak to RBC’s financing of LNG in the Gulf of Mexico.
Jesse Cardinal
Jesse is a mother and the Executive Director of Keepers of the Water, an Indigenous organization that works to defend water through cultural power building, policy and legal defense, education, and training community members to conduct water health monitoring. She is also a language learner of the Cree language and is from the Kikino Metis Settlement.
Moderated by Erica Violet Lee
Erica Violet Lee is a nêhiyaw poet and Native political theorist, born and raised in Saskatoon's inner city. She has a masters degree from the University of Toronto, and her debut book, "On the Prairies We Will Live Forever" is forthcoming with Penguin/Random House. Erica is a member of Thunderchild Cree Nation.